Inventing the Loyalists

by Knowles, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780802079138
• ISBN10: 080207913X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Showing that the past is often written into present concerns, and that many groups in Ontario, both powerful and disempowered, have invoked the experience of the Loyalists, Knowles significantly revises earlier interpretations of the Loyalist tradition.

Author Biography

NORMAN KNOWLES teaches in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, and has written for Canadian Ethnic Studies and Ontario History, among other journals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
'Chiefly landholders, farmers, and others': The Loyalist Reality	p. 14
'An ancestry of which any people might be proud': Official History, the Vernacular Past, and the Shaping of the Loyalist Tradition at Mid-Century	p. 26
'Loyalism is not dead in Adolphustown': Community Factionalism and the Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Celebrations of 1884	p. 48
'A sacred trust': The 1884 Toronto, Niagara, and Six Nations Loyalist Centennial Celebrations and the Politics of Commemoration	p. 67
'Fairy tales in the guise of history': The Loyalists in Ontario Publications, 1884-1918	p. 91
'Object lessons': Loyalist Monuments and the Creation of Usable Pasts	p. 115
'A further and more enduring mark of honour': The Middle Class and the United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1914	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 163
The Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Committee, 1884	p. 175
The Committee of Management of the 1884 Toronto Loyalist Centennial Celebrations	p. 176
General Membership, United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1913: Sex, Religious Affiliation, Political Affiliation, Occupation	p. 178
Officers, United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1913: Sex, Religious Affiliation, Political Affiliation, Occupation	p. 180
Membership: United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1916	p. 182
Notes	p. 183
Select Bibliography	p. 213
Picture Credits	p. 235
Index	p. 237
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